{"id":128022,"date":"2023-09-02T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128022"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:22:07","slug":"poem-2-pondering-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-2-pondering-abandonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2:  Pondering Abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you wake and learn<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re a deer, the tips of your racks<\/p>\n<p>scabbed, your tan hide nothing like<\/p>\n<p>the crow\u2019s sheen? You can\u2019t pinch<\/p>\n<p>your hide and wake &#8212; your hooves can\u2019t pinch.<\/p>\n<p>Smells glow in your nose like they<\/p>\n<p>live their own lives. The air is a gray veil<\/p>\n<p>with one small thread you pull to<\/p>\n<p>help you find your way back to your fawn<\/p>\n<p>you left in the woods all alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you wake and learn you\u2019re a deer, the tips of your racks scabbed, your tan hide nothing like the crow\u2019s sheen? You can\u2019t pinch your hide and wake &#8212; your hooves can\u2019t pinch. Smells glow in your nose like they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128050,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128022\/revisions\/128050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}